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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXVII, Issue 100, 30 April 1915, Page 5

SHELLED BY THE GERMANS V SHIPMASTER’S REMARKABLE EXPERIENCE. Captain P. R. Sijverloek, of the N.S.W. Government trawler Brolga, was at Hartlepool during the bombardment by the Germans. He was on the steamer Gallier, and his vessel had a most marvellous escape, shrapnel l falling on all sides from the three ei emy ships for about an hour. Vessels moored near his ship had their crews killed and wounded. On the water-front near hy a number of buildings, including the Carnegie library, were wrecked, and some totally destroyed. Over a hundred lives were lost in the vicinity of the quay, but the Gallier. although a large vessel, and her crew escaped without the slightest injury. Her immunity from I loss, however, was short lived, and on Chi ist mas Day. shortly after leaving Hartlepool, she struck a contact mine, which exploded near her No. I hold. Fortune was again kind to the Gallier, for the full force of the exolosiou was not sufficient to send her to the bottom, her forward and aft watertight compartments keeping her alloat until ■ she was enabled to make .Mi(ldlesborough, where she was docked and repaired. In the meantime Captain Silverier!; was engaged by rhe New South Wales Government to bring one ol their three trawlers out from Grimsby to Sydney.